W500 and Samsung 256 gig SSD

Jon Lumpkin got me interested in SSD's so I bought an Intel 80 gig SSD for my T61p. It was great, but the lack of SATA II on it really got me bummed. So I bought a W500, and a Samsung 256 GB SSD for my new laptop. Here are the results. Pretty happy. I am dual booting Windows 7 and Vista 64-Business.

Interestingly Windows 7 is slower for now. I uploaded the Windows 7 speedtest...the Vista test was 12.6 percent faster...

 

Congrats! Bear in mind most operating systems aren't fully optimized for SSD's. I'm sure as they gain popularity, the performance will increase quite a bit.

Was thinking about an SSD for my X200, but a bit pricy at the moment. Will definitely look forward to the swtich in the future.

 

Yeah I know...the price is steep. 800 dollars for the SSD, but well worth it in my opinion I work on my laptop all day. Time savings is huge -- of course now I am the bottleneck...;-)

 

Congrats. I assume that is one of the just released Samsung MLC SSDs. I am particularly impressed by the write scores as they seem to almost equal the reads and are quite high (this is very rare for MLC).

In what way are you finding Windows 7 slower exactly. I find it to perform as good, and frequently far better, than Vista Business 64. Benchmarks tend to come out about the same, but it feels faster. If you have a 12.6% difference, then I think you have some setting wrong.


P.S. Alt+PrtScrn is your friend (it only copies the active window to the clipboard).

 

I wish I had a trust fund.

I decided to go the opposite route and got the Seagate 7200.4. I want to put a lot of movies on my machine, which is kind of tough when you only got 80GB. When I had a SSD, other than the really fast boot times, I never noticed much of difference for everyday stuff. Granted mine was a junky OCZ SSD. That may have been an issue. The write hangs were really annoying.

On a side note, I upped my 15" R60 to 3GB of memory, the max for the R60. I have to say performance has a bit more peppy. Not hugely so, but I'll take it. At boot I'm only using 30% of memory instead of 50%.

 

No Windows 7 seems faster the benchmark was a little slower in read, but the write scores are quite a bit faster in Windows 7. In general Windows 7 seems to be very fast and stable. I've had two BSOD's due to video card driver issues with Vista and not a one with Windows 7.

I have the SATA ultrabay for a 2nd HD -- 500 gig to have all my files on.

Attached is the Vista benchmark with the same Samsung drive...

 

It is faster and it's still beta, and congratulations.